Ixodes kopsteini ( Oudemans, 1926 )

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 39

118. Ixodes kopsteini ( Oudemans, 1926) .

An Afrotropical, Australasian and Oriental species, all of whose parasitic stages have been found on Chiroptera : Molossidae , Pteropodidae and Vespertilionidae . There are no records of Ixodes kopsteini causing human parasitism.

M: Oudemans (1925), under the name Eschatocephalus ropsteini , a lapsus emended in Oudemans (1926), and given its current status in Schulze (1935b)

F: Kohls and Clifford (1961), under the name Ixodes paradoxus , a synonym of Ixodes kopsteini

N: Kohls and Clifford (1961), under the name Ixodes paradoxus

L: Kohls and Clifford (1961), under the name Ixodes paradoxus

Redescriptions

M: Oudemans (1927, under the name Eschatocephalus kopsteini ), Schulze (1935b), Kohls and Clifford (1968), Roberts (1970), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Arthur (1965, under the name Ixodes paradoxus ), Roberts (1970), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

N: Arthur (1965, under the name Ixodes paradoxus ), Roberts (1970)

L: Arthur (1965, under the name Ixodes paradoxus ), Roberts (1969), Kadarsan (1971)